A Cry to Heaven (after Psalm 6) At least a wall might crack, crumble, weaken, fall, / tumble, overturned by roots, rain, wind, and weather ...

This poem of mine's an experiment. Alliterative hexameter with split alliteration.

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Me manet ignorans, nam nescit nostra puella
corpus mansurum hic saxoso in monte Kamono

#hexameter

“Opinions are like assholes: everybody has one.”

—Clint Eastwood

cuique ut inest anus, sic est sententia cuique.

#hexameter

“As everyone an asshole sports
So too each an opinion courts.”

Rex non esse velim, cuperem ne saevus et esse.

#hexameter

I wouldn’t want to be king or autocrat,
lest I should also wish to be a cruel prat.

"tolutim", the Latin for 'at full trot'

As in

"O Tite, tute, Tati, transisti tanta tolutim"

---Ps.-Ennius #hexameter

"You, o Titus Tatius, passed through so much at full trot".

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Metrical exploration of Juliet’s monologue in the balcony scene. #RomeoAndJuliet #Shakespeare #scansion #BlankVerse #iambic #pentameter #hexameter #prosody #IambicPentameter #monologue x.com/8dawntreader...

Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson Carol Rumens: A yearning for a past love ebbs and flows dreamily under the influence of the 12-syllable French line

Wonderful employment of #iambic #hexameter by Ernest Dowson (the 5th line of each stanza is a #pentameter). “Cynara” is accented on the 1st syllable; and in the last line only of each stanza, metrically contracted.

You might spot a movie title! #poetry

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Exposure by Wilfred Owen | Poetry Foundation Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive

Eight stanzas of restless hexameter.

But nothing happens.

Exposure by Wilfred Owen | Poetry Foundation #poetry #WarPoetry #WilfredOwen #iambic #hexameter #IambicHexameter www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57261/...